Word: backspin
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...